“I feel like I just born again. No more dialysis. No more pain,” Satish Gobin said of a kidney transplant operation he has just undergone in India.
In February, 19-year-old Gobin was diagnosed with kidney failure. After months on three-day-a-week dialysis treatment his condition worsened. His parents were then tested and his mother Shureen Ragbeer was found to be a match for a transplant.
“He’s such a good son to me. Any parent wouldn’t like to see their children suffer. It’s a parent’s duty to save their children life. Any parent who love their children would do what I did,” Ragbeer said when she and her son visited Stabroek News on Saturday.
Ragbeer said she wanted the public to know that her son’s surgery was successful since it was with public assistance that he was able be treated and to undergo the transplant operation. “We’d like to thank the Ministry of Health, Three Rivers, Mr Panday for his kind support and generosity. He’s the first person to help us with dialysis,” she said. A smiling and healthy-looking Gobin too extended his gratitude to the public, “who contributed generously” to his treatment.
In June, Three Rivers Kids Foundation paid for Gobin’s operation in India at the Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute for Liver, Renal and Digestive Diseases. The Foundation, located at Woolford Avenue in the Gandhi Youth Organisation building, is a charitable organisation which helps sick children who cannot afford medical care. Gobin and his mother spent two months in India. According to Ragbeer, “The doctors say it was the best kidney transplant they do so far. It went smooth and everything.”
Meanwhile Gobin, who worked as a geographic technician with a private company before becoming ill, plans to use his second chance at life to further his education. “I plan on going and do Engineering at UG or TI (Georgetown Technical Institute). In the meantime, he is heeding doctor’s orders to avoid strenuous work. The young man said doctors had put him on a six-month rest and he goes for check-ups every fortnight at the Georgetown Public Hospital.
